Show A CROP OF STATESMEN AN EASTERN paper says that dakota may be a little short on wheat this year but she will be awfully long on statesmen we suspect this Js is more than half true our neighbors to the northeast are very much in love with the condition of statehood which is shortly to be theirs and naturally enough they are moving in the grooves of politics the fact that both north and south dakota beginning with next october must shift for themselves and no longer look to the general government is counter poised in the minds of the people by the glad realization that will come at the same time that they will not be imposed upon nor controlled in any manner by the parent authority and they accept the grave responsibility consequent upon state sovereignty without the slightest symptoms of alarm south dakota will go in with about people and north dar da kota with about half of that nuna num ber this estimate maybe may be increased some little by the actual figures but not greatly we think however that may be both are and have J been for years fully qualified in all respects for the inde ts pendent and republican form of go gov J which comes coak only of state hood it was through political squabbles and misunderstandings that this was hindered for somo soma time at least the unpleasant situation was more attributable to that than to anything else though in dakota ail aa elsewhere alse where there be those who are an shortsighted ignorant deficient to in i public spirit or needlessly apprehend sive because of the increased ex pense which a state govern government me n t j in ink bolves as aa compared with the terrt J system and this he helped ped to toj postpone the day of liberty 1 it is safe however to predict that when the question of the adopt adoption lon of the constitutions fabricated aff K sioux falls and bismarck are sub 1 m bitted bitted to the popular vote in 0 octol ber the array army of all such f will appear under the head of i who vote constitution no sitf be so insignificant that it will not 1 be looked upon as ever having beag a retarding influence at all after their constitutions shaw have bave been adopted by the dakotas Dako taa i they will have to suffer no further further 11 through the laws delay ex for such additional time ft will be necessary to foiw for the result properly agthe authe authentic bated to washington con cong gr will not as has generally been case be called upon to take tion HOD in the matter it did all was necessary when it pawed passed enabling acts which provi 7 among other things that when tip constitutions should be duly rau ratI Arik the president of the united ati would thereupon be authorized authorize dy issue a proclamation declaring axing k two commonwealths duly admix admi into the confederation of states the same is true with refe reference renca z montana and washington and m they will be ready at the apponi ampol time there can be no doubt NC can there be a doubt of the pr P ak denies prompt action in ishuin issuing 9 C necessary proclamation so the ib U is as good as done all around it is no wonder in view of circumstances that there ta Is abundant crop of statesmen lug ing on T this h I 1 a is gi giving vit g to th the its broadest and most general signification as one who serves the state As the prospect of emancipation n from the iron rule of great arltain awn made a large crop of patriots and soldiers on our soil in 1776 so now does the imminent of the people of four growing w and promising territories from the un american condition in which they have bave been plodding ever since they ahoy had political recognition create politicians and statesmen it is a hopeful sign that it is so sa because the people are interested in the subject on their own and the ewe account it t is a proper thing for all people similarly situated to do and that they will elsewhere claims cwm and assert their rights until ff nalty and a few years the of columbia and far off alaska are the only remnants of territorial government left within our broad domain is as plainly a sign of the times aa a a though it were written on the sky let the crop of tote amen flourish and let them all have bave a state in which to exercise their calling |